Molding device.



No. 822,536. PATBNTED JUNE 5, 1906.

G. M. MILLS.

MOLDING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 22, 1904. RENEWED DEG. 7,1905.

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MOLDING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

IPatented June 5, 1906.

[0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE M. MILLS, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of NewJersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in MoldingDevices, of which the following is a specificatron.

My invention relates to an improvement in molding devicessuch, forinstance, as are employed in molding candies.

The object of my invention is to improve the operation of these devicesand to prevent injury thereto by use.

The scope of my invention will be defined in the claim. The drawingillustrates my ibnvention in a form which is now preferred y me.

The drawing is an elevation of my device showing the disks in section.

In producing certain classes of product as, for instance, candiesit iscustomary to use two cylinders turning in substantial contact with eachother and provided with recesses adapted to register to form therein asingle article. It is customary to connect these cylinders by gears, soas to secure proper registration of the parts of the mold which arecontained in the respective cylinders. The drawing shows two cylinders AA, having recesses a for molding the article and each adapted toregister with a complementary recess in the surface of the othercylinder. These cylinders are mounted upon shafts B B and are operatedby gears G G, also on said shafts.

In molding devices of this character it is customary to make the body ofthe cylinder which contains the molds of a soft and easilyworked metal,as brass. In adjusting the rolls into contact it often happens that toogreat a pressure is brought upon the rolls,

either at one or both ends. As a result of this excessive pressure thesoft metal is caused to flow and the perfection of the molds isdestroyed. To provide against this, I provide the ends of the rolls withdisks, as I, of a hard metal, as steel, which will take the pressure andby reason of their superior hardness will not be deformed by thepressure. I also prefer to provide a groove or peripheral recess J ateach end of the rolls neXt to the hard disk, so that if there is anydeformation it will be accommodated at this part.

By the means above described I prevent deformation of the molding-rolls.I have referred to my device as being used for molding candy. It is,however, evident that it may be used upon any material capable of beingso molded. I do not, therefore, wish to be understood as limiting it tomolding candy, but to claim it applied to any use of which it iscapable.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

The combination with a pair of moldingcylinders mounted on rotatableshafts and adapted to turn in substantial peripheral contact, ofrelatively more durable disks also mounted on said shaft beyond the endsof said cylinders, and adapted to receive the contact-pressure betweenthe cylinders, said cylinders having a recess or peripheral openingbetween the molding parts and said disks and a pair of intermeshingdisks connecting said shafts, substantially as described.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,this 1st day of June, A. D. 1904.

GEORGE M. MILLS. Witnesses:

CHAS. L. WOLF, M. BENDER.

